I tend to either act as a data hoarder, but most of the time end up being overwhelmed with anxiety about having so much data. Even when I just look at my personal photos, I just feel impeding doom knowing it can only grow and grow, it will never get smaller.
I was wondering if this had a term.
And coming from this question, I am just amazed by this community. What has prompted your interest in data hoarding?
Yep, I had a friend that matched exactly as the opposite of a data hoarder.
I asked him why would he behaves that way, not even saving the photos to hard drives when he switched to new phones. He said he hate his past, and there’s nothing to look behind from present time. He had only few of his sport car’s photos, few of his cat’s photos, not much photos even moments with his girl friend. At the age of mid 20s, he has at most 1GB of his valuable data to keep.
Damn… where you guys live? Let’s make some good memories with him
You know what? I’ve got these awesome screenshots of some epic online moments with him. We’re talking gameplays, chats, and those hilarious “lol” moments. They’re like treasures to me, so I’m definitely gonna hold onto them and bring them up in conversations every now and then. They make for some great talking points, like a conversation piece of art.
That is so sad :(
I still have all the memories (photos, etc) and when I open them I feel nothing but gratitude because even if they’re not so happy memories I learned a lot from those experiences. We are all out past, not just what we like. “All sunshine makes a desert” say the arabs and they’re definitely not wrong.
I don’t think it’s inherently sad. That is not me by any chance, but I am envious of the experience, in the same way I’m envious of buddhist monks who are happy with nothing.
And Here I am with 18 TB of selected out photo video storage… And that’s just personal…
I find those “unselected” photo videos be also important for memories. You might want to just archive the “unselected” ones and open it like a treasure box 10 years later. You might find it valuable and glad you did not delete those 10 years later. Just my 2 cents of opinion haha
Yeah, I once knew a woman who deleted her emails after reading them, back when it was more popular pre social media.
IMO this was common in the past because inbox quotas were very small. With many services only allowing users to have ~10-100MB it was critical to delete things (especially attachments).
When Gmail launched in 2004, providing 1GB of mail storage, gradually increasing to 15GB today, people’s habits changed. That said, my university email almost a decade later still had a 100MB quota and it was very painful.
you should delete all your mails today
it’s one of many methods they profile you online
google is just another department of cia
Doesn’t honestly sound that surprising for the age. Give it 20 years.